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There's another category. Those of us who manually did this already, are annoyed we didn't write down all the steps, but are glad to find this posted here.

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There's another category. Those of us who were so aggravated by it we ended up starting an entire open source project and now have 12k users.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript

As I rely on some deeper Windows features (like Storage Spaces), I'd be very wary of running a giant script instead of targeting features I dislike (such as OneDrive sync). Last I saw it breaks features like the Windows Store app.

> Last I saw it breaks features like the Windows Store app.

That is a feature, not a bug. I wish I could find something that would break windows trusted installer from using 25% of my CPU all the time on win 7.

There is nothing inherently bad about having a store app. And it's the only way to install some programs. How is its removal a feature?

The windows app store is an infested malware cesspool:

http://www.howtogeek.com/194993/the-windows-store-is-a-cessp...

http://www.itproportal.com/2015/02/23/windows-store-infested...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-was-this-windows-store-app-...

They have gotten better (these links are in chronological order), but best practices for individual users and administrators is to disable the windows app store.

The whole thing is open source (MIT license) and based largely on community contributions. It did break the Windows Store originally, but that was fixed a long time ago.

If you have any issues with it let me know - we work on it pretty much constantly.

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